May 31, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
The rapid adoption and popularity of cloud and SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365 have introduced a better way to collaborate and share data, providing businesses with improvements in efficiency and lowered IT costs. SaaS and cloud computing are changing...
May 30, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Gatwick Airport has installed about 2,000 beacons across its two terminals, that it hopes will provide a more reliable navigation system than GPS for passengers. The beacon-based positioning system is one part of Gatwick’s £2.5bn transformation programme. It...
May 25, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
On an ordinary workday in mid-2016, a handful of Facebook engineers were sitting on the couches in a corner of the company’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters when one of them tossed out a wacky idea. He suggested doing something that had never been done...
May 24, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Samsung is set to unveil a new kind of flexible OLED display for smartphones and tablets that can be stretched, bent, rolled and even dented up to 12mm – but won’t break. The display will be shown off at the Society for Information Display (SID) show in...
May 23, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
British telco O2 is the first to publicly confirm that it will be trialling 3GPP-compliant Internet of Things connectivity tech in the UK later this year. Although the telco would not be drawn on specifics, it told The Register it would be trialling “3GPP...
May 19, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Conduct proper and timely backups of your data so it can be used to restore original files after a data loss event Use a security solution (Kaspersky is an excellent example) with behaviour based detection technologies. These technologies can catch malware, including...
May 18, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Aimed at small businesses, Microsoft Outlook Customer Manager makes it easy to track and grow customer relationships from within Outlook. It is now generally available to Office 365 Business Premium subscribers worldwide. This solution currently supports Outlook 2016...
May 17, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Amazon has launched two new low-priced Fire tablets, which will integrate its Alexa personal assistant. The devices will come with either a 7 inch or 8 inch display. The Fire 7 boasts an in-plane switching (IPS) display in a package that is thinner and lighter than...
May 17, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Yahoo Mail app for Windows 10 is shutting down and will stop working next week. The company is already notifying users of the app that it will no longer function after Monday, 22nd May. The message says, “Your Windows 10 app will stop working after May 22. Thank...
May 16, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft are not happy that leaked NSA exploits led to the WannaCrypt ransomware causing havoc computers worldwide. Company President Brad Smith posted a response to the attack that roasts the NSA CIA and other intelligence agencies for hogging security...
May 15, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Due to the WanaCrypt severity Microsoft have developed a fix for out-of-date versions of its Windows operating systems. Although the fix can’t reverse the effects of an infected system, it does prevent vulnerable versions of Windows from getting infected by WanaCrypt...
May 15, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Mac OS X is by its nature a very secure operating system however with Apple’s growing popularity it is a target for cyber criminals. An example is the ‘KeRanger’ ransomware which hit OS X users in 2016. ‘KeRanger’ was distributed with the legitimate software...
May 12, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Jaff, ransomware that has familiar traits to the Locky malware, is sending five million emails an hour in an attempt to infect users’ PCs – and will demand 1.79 Bitcoin (£2,780) to unlock encrypted computer files if it succeeds. According to Forcepoint...
May 12, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
If you own or use a HP computer it’s time to check whether either C:\Windows\System32\MicTray64.exe or C:\Windows\System32\MicTray.exe in installed. If either is, you have an active keylogger recording all key presses and need to take action by renaming the...
May 11, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Although Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud service, regular backups provide an additional layer of protection from user errors and intentional malicious actions. Our Acronis Office 365 Mailbox Backup solution helps prevent against data loss with 24/7 backup for...
May 10, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
VMs allow you to experiment with other operating systems. They allow you to work safely with more reliability and security: VMs are essentially like working in a sandbox environment (see * note). Working within such a controlled environment when running programs is a...
May 9, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Over the weekend, Google’s Project Zero researchers Tavis Ormandy and Natalie Silvanovich tweeted about discovering what Tavis referred to as “the worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory. This is crazy bad.” This bug could work against a default installation...
May 8, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
A virtual machine is a computer application or file (typically called an image) that behaves like an actual computer. It runs on your current operating system in a window on your desktop to allow you to experiment with different operating systems, just like you would...
May 4, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
UK banks (including Barclay’s, HSBC, Lloyd’s, NatWest and Standard Chartered) have a total of 324 domain spoofs controlled by cyber criminals that are aimed at fooling customers and retrieving their information. Security research and intelligence company...
May 4, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
1 – Log into the Office 365 portal (http://portal.office.com) and click your photo in the top-right of the page 2 – Click View Account 3 – Click the Security and Privacy menu to the left or the Manage Security and Privacy link on the main area of the...
May 3, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
The moneymaking machines at the core of Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, are notably different. But the respective kings of online retailing, software and internet search should all credit a relatively new line of business for lifting...
May 2, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
The last time Microsoft commented formally, they claimed 85 million active monthly Office 365 users in October 2016. On their April 27 analyst call to discuss Q3 FY17 results, CEO Satya Nadella said that the new number is “more than 100 million monthly active users.”...
May 2, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
A year ago, many investors had given up on Apple, whose stock price had fallen more than 30 percent from its 2015 peak. Apple’s once-unstoppable growth had come to a crashing halt: The number of iPhones sold was down 13 percent, and the company posted its first...
May 1, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
According to a recent Ponemon Institute study,* the average cost of a data breach has risen to $4 million, with costs incurred for litigation, brand or reputation damage, lost sales and in some cases—complete business closure. Staying ahead of threats has never been...